[Would anyone have the fortitude to interrupt current activities after that? Anderson thinks himself a strong man, but he still slackens under the touch of Alucard's lips.

One of his hands drifts up into Alucard's hair, encouraging him to maintain the current path of his mouth, while the other slides down between them to graze along the lower regions on Alucard's navel.]

Need I tell you?

[There's more certainty to his touch. He's gone a little further with someone recently, traversed some foreign ground, so he's overcome a few of his reservations about intimacy.]

I was intimate with a woman recently. [That's an odd thing to announce, but it does have a purpose.] By which I mean, I'm- better prepared, to go further, if you're not opposed. If this is the time for it. I don't mind postponing if it isn't. Not out of any desire to, but all things considered-

[Every added word just made that worse, didn't it. He's glad Alucard currently can't see the pained expression on his face.

A pause, and he adds:]

I didn't break the terms of our contract.

[Just to be clear.]